[For Day Service Centers] February Craft Ideas: Decorations for Setsubun, Valentine’s Day, and the Feeling of Spring
February is a month when you can feel the arrival of spring even amid the cold.
For crafts at the day service, let’s choose activities that engage the hands while reflecting the changing seasons.
Seasonal crafts may make you look forward to spring and spark lively conversations.
February’s unique motifs—Setsubun ogres and ehomaki rolls, camellias and daffodils that bloom beautifully despite the cold, and Valentine’s heart decorations—are all heartwarming.
Crafts made with familiar materials like origami paper, Yakult containers, and felt are easy for anyone to try and bring great joy when completed.
Shall we enjoy creating warm pieces together that help us forget the winter chill?
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For Day Service Centers: February Craft Ideas—Decorations for Setsubun, Valentine’s Day, and the Coming of Spring (21–30)
Yarn: Making a Friendly Oni Wall Hanging
Decorate your room with an Oni theme to bring a Setsubun vibe.
In this idea, you wrap yarn around thick paper, then attach felt parts for the face and horns to make the oni.
After making a red oni and a blue oni, glue them onto a base; add holly leaves and a paper label with the word “Setsubun” to finish.
Decorate the four corners of the base with washi-pattern origami or tape, and place gem or pearl stickers in the empty spaces.
The impression changes depending on whether you use the square base as-is or rotate it into a diamond shape.
Punch a hole in the base, thread a red ribbon through, and finish it so it can be hung on the wall.
Pop-up 3D chocolate card
Let’s handmake a message card for Valentine’s Day that’s so tempting it makes you want to take a bite.
First, fold a piece of brown construction paper in half to use as the base of the card.
Next, cut out a chocolate base sized to fit the cover, and, imagining a chocolate bar, cut out as many small block-shaped chocolate pieces as you need.
Use thick double-sided tape to attach the block-shaped chocolates to the chocolate base, then wrap aluminum foil over them so that the chocolates are about half covered.
Wrap your favorite patterned origami paper over that to represent the wrapper, add a ribbon, and attach it to the card’s cover to finish.
Inside the card, glue a piece of white paper and write your message.
[For Day Service Centers] February Craft Ideas: Decorations that evoke Setsubun, Valentine’s Day, and Spring (31–40)
Making Ehomaki and Oni Figurines
When it comes to Setsubun, we think of ehomaki and oni (ogres).
Ehomaki are eaten to pray for good fortune, and oni are driven away as a form of warding off evil.
In this craft idea, an ehomaki is made by lining a toilet paper roll with black origami paper and filling it with “rice” and “ingredients” made from tissue paper.
The oni is made by cutting a toilet paper roll into rings, shaping them into squares, covering them with red felt, adding yarn hair, and gluing on horns made from chopsticks sharpened with a pencil sharpener.
Arrange the ehomaki and the oni on a base along with a box of beans, and you’ll have a lovely Setsubun decoration.
Peekaboo Ehomaki
How about a unique ehomaki that’s not only cute to display but also perfect for a prank? Cut a kitchen paper tube in half and wrap the outside with black construction paper.
Next, wrap white yarn around a fork about 60 times, tie it in the center, and cut the loops.
Trim it into a round shape with scissors to make the “rice.” Make two of these, thread them onto a straw to secure them, then attach felt “fillings” on top and facial parts on the sides, and insert the whole thing into the tube.
While they’re focused on the fillings, push out the “rice” and surprise them with the face on the side!
Camellia decoration made with origami
Camellia flowers that evoke the arrival of spring are a perfect motif for a February wall display.
Cut two sheets of origami paper into circles, fold them in half, then fold into thirds.
Trim both corners with scissors to suggest petals.
Make a slit in the center, layer the two pieces so you end up with five petals, and glue them together to create a three-dimensional plum blossom shape.
Make another flower the same way, then attach the two so the petals alternate.
Create the flower’s center from yellow origami paper and attach it to complete the camellia.
In addition to the camellias, make paper fans and leaves, and secure them to a string.
If you attach them to a tree branch as shown in the video, they become an even lovelier hanging decoration.
Blue Oni made with a toilet paper roll core
This is a cute blue ogre craft made with a toilet paper roll and origami.
Cut the roll in half, then wrap the lower half with a piece for the ogre’s pants—yellow origami decorated with patterns drawn in black pen.
Cover the upper half, which will be the face, with light blue origami.
Draw the eyes and mouth with a black pen, then finish by attaching cheeks, hair, and horn pieces cut from origami.
It’s rounded but very stable, making it perfect for display! It’s also lovely to make ogres in various colors and line them up.
Oni roly-poly doll
In February for Setsubun, let’s make an ogre-themed roly-poly toy.
Inflate a balloon to the size you want, then use diluted glue to stick torn pieces of shoji paper onto the surface.
Layer the paper so it’s three to five sheets thick, then brush on more glue and let it dry.
Once it’s completely dry, pop the balloon and drop some glue and a marble into the hollow shell to weight and fix it.
Finally, decorate it with hair and horns to make it look like an oni, and you’re done.
It takes time to dry, so it’s nice that you can enjoy the process at a relaxed pace.